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Who Pays A Higher Price For Online Sales Tax?

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Wayfair case that allowed states and individual cities to launch tax policies aimed at remote sellers and marketplaces is still reverberating in 2019 and will likely affect online retail in 2020. In Q3 2019, 14 states started collected online sales tax and 11 more followed in October. eBay Makes a Deal.

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NRF, RILA Debut Blueprint For Reopening Retail

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In a plan that frames a phased-in approach to opening retail again, the National Retail Federation (NRF) and the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) debuted a Blueprint for Shopping Safe. The Blueprint for Shopping Safe outlines three different phases for reopening. Macy’s Inc. and TGI Fridays Inc.

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Uber Eats Says Customers Donated $3M To Help Unemployed Workers

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The San Francisco-based online food ordering and delivery service launched by Uber in 2014 said it will match up to $3 million in contributions made by customers, according to TechCrunch. Uber Eats said it will send its matched portion to the National Restaurant Association’s Restaurant Employee Relief Fund.

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Is Sales Tax An Anchor On Amazon?

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The effect of that loophole has lessened greatly for Amazon as its warehousing networks have grown — since online retailers have to charge sales tax in any state they have a location — but as Congress has been pondering the possibility of a national sales tax, the question has been recurring.

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A ‘Diaper’ By Any Other Tax Code: The Complexities Of Selling Across State Tax Laws

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An Illinois bill could aid both by making online marketplaces responsible for tax collection on the third-party sales facilitated through their platforms. National Retailers On Staying Compliant When Tax Exemptions Are Only Statewid e. Around The Next-Gen Sales Tax Wor ld. Easing tax compliance helps governments and retailers alike.

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36 State Attorneys General settle with CarMax over non-disclosure of open safety recalls

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Any vehicles sold online, including through www.carmax.com or the CarMax mobile app, must also clearly and conspicuously disclose on the first page of the overall description of the vehicle or vehicle history report that the vehicle may be subject to an open recall for safety issues that have not been repaired.

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How Clandestina (Literally) Snuck Into The US Market

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And while those numbers aren’t likely to keep Amazon or H&M up at night, for a small Cuban eCommerce startup operating out of nation where internet access is patchy and from which the company can’t ship goods directly to U.S. as relations between the two nations began to improve in 2014. We’re super-happy.

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